Depolarizing collisions in nonlinear electrodynamics /
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| Author / Creator: | Evseev, I. V. (Igorʹ Viktorovich) |
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| Imprint: | Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2004. |
| Description: | 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5175782 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1.. Interaction of Atoms in the Approximation of Depolarizing Collisions
- 1.1. The Integral of Elastic Atomic Collisions
- 1.2. The Model of Depolarizing Collisions
- 1.3. Dependence of Relaxation Matrices on Atomic Velocities
- 1.4. Relaxation Characteristics of an Atomic Transition between Levels with Angular Momenta 0 and 1
- 1.5. Relaxation Characteristics Averaged over the Directions of Atomic Velocities
- References
- Chapter 2.. Methods of Theoretical Description of the Formation of Photon Echo and Stimulated Photon Echo Signals in Gases
- 2.1. Early Theoretical Studies on the Photon Echo in Gases
- 2.2. The Basic Equations for the Description of Electromagnetic Processes in a Gas Medium
- 2.3. Specific Features of the Formation of Photon Echo Signals in Gases
- 2.4. Characteristic Parameters of the Theory of the Photon Echo
- 2.5. Specific Features of the Formation of Stimulated Photon Echo Signals in Gases
- References
- Chapter 3.. Experimental Apparatus and Technique for Optical Coherent Spectroscopy of Gases
- 3.1. The Methods of Excitation of Optical Coherent Responses in Gas Media
- 3.1.1. The Pulsed Method
- 3.1.2. The Method of Stark Switching
- 3.1.3. The Kinetic Method
- 3.1.4. The Method of Studying Coherent Radiation in Time-Separated Fields
- 3.1.5. Excitation of Backward Optical Coherent Responses
- 3.1.6. The Carr-Parcell Method
- 3.2. Optical Echo Relaxometer of Gas Media with Remote-Controlled Tuning
- 3.3. Non-Faraday Polarization Rotation in Photon Echo
- 3.4. The Method of Measurement of Homogeneous Spectral Line Widths by Means of Photon Echo Signals
- 3.5. Self-Induced Transparency and Self-Compression of a Pulse in a Resonant Gas Medium
- References
- Chapter 4.. Polarization Echo Spectroscopy
- 4.1. Identification of Resonant Transitions
- 4.2. Conditions Imposed on the Parameters of Pump Pulse for Measuring the Homogeneous Half-Width of a Resonant Spectral Line
- 4.3. The Possibility of Measuring the Relaxation Parameters of the Octupole Moment of a Resonant Transition
- 4.4. The Possibility of Measuring the Relaxation Parameters of the Quadrupole Moment of a Resonant Transition
- 4.5. Requirements to the Parameters of Pump Pulses Used for the Investigation of the Relaxation Parameter of the Dipole Moment of a Resonant Transition as Functions of the Modulus of the Velocity of Resonant Atoms (Molecules)
- 4.6. The Possibility of Studying the Dependence of Relaxation Matrices on the Direction of the Velocity of Resonant Atoms (Molecules)
- 4.7. The Possibility of Measuring the Relaxation Parameters of Multipole Moments for Optically Forbidden Transitions
- 4.8. Measurement of Population, Orientation, and Alignment Relaxation Times for Levels Involved in Resonant Transitions
- 4.9. The Possibility of Measuring the Lifetime of the Upper Resonant State with Respect to Spontaneous Decay to the Lower Resonant State
- 4.10. Polarization Echo Spectroscopy of Atoms with Nonzero Nuclear Spins
- 4.11. Advantages of the Polarization Echo Spectroscopy of Gas Media
- References
- Chapter 5.. Application of the Photon Echo in a Gas Medium for Data Writing, Storage, and Processing
- 5.1. Correlation of Signal Shapes in Photon Echo and Its Modifications in Two-, Three-, and Four-Level Systems
- 5.2. Mechanisms of the Formation of the Long-Lived Stimulated Photon Echo
- 5.3. Optical Data Processing Based on the Photon Echo in Gaseous Media
- 5.4. Optical Echo Holography in Gas Media
- References
- Chapter 6.. Double-Mode Lasing in Standing-Wave Gas Lasers with Allowance for Depolarizing Collisions
- 6.1. Theoretical Description of Double-Mode Lasing in Gas Lasers
- 6.2. Polarization of the Gas Medium in the Case of Double-Mode Lasing
- 6.3. Stability of the Stationary Double-Mode Regime of Lasing
- 6.4. The Influence of Combination Tones on the Stability of the Stationary Double-Mode Regime of Lasing
- References
- Chapter 7.. Interaction of Strong and Weak Running Waves in a Resonant Gas Medium
- 7.1. The Gain of a Weak Wave Passing through a Medium Saturated with a Strong Wave
- 7.2. Amplification of a Weak Wave through a Transition Adjacent to a Strong Wave
- References
- Appendices
- A.1. Optical Bloch Equations
- A.2. Stimulated Photon Induction
- A.3. The Photon (Optical) Echo in Gas Media
- References
- Subject Index
